Rob Thorpe and a team from BMO Global Asset Management are walking round the M25. Yep, really. This…
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Last year, all sorts of extraordinary individuals did all sorts of extraordinary things to raise money. This is a great place to get some ideas for your own fundraising pursuits. If inspiration fails to strike, MiP are only a call away with plenty of help and ideas!
Details of new challenges in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital will be added soon.
Current CASCAID challenges
The onesie challenge
And so the challenges begin. At the launch party Tim Weller kindly (!) challenged Helen Wagstaff to wear…
2017 CASCAID challenges for CRUK
Jim’s 100 climbs done and dusted
Read about Jim Leaviss’s tremendous effort…… I set myself the target of riding up 100 hills, mountains, or…
Bad Boys on Tour
At the end of September, three of the Bad Boys – Phil Wagstaff, Jonathan Polin and Tim Weller…
Square Mile quiz night a great success
31 teams gathered at The Gable in the heart of the City on 12 September 2017 for the…
Investec take on the Tough Mudder
On Saturday 16th Sept, a fearless team from Investec Asset Management UK Client Group, plus special guests, took...
Warren Tonkinson – man of iron!
Warren completed his CASCAID half-ironman triathlon challenge last weekend. He’s done a lot of crazy challenges in the…
Charlie Wilson’s shooting day
The clay shooting day organised by Charlie Wilson was a great success. Congratulations to the winning team, comprising…
T.Rowe Price volunteer for CRUK
Some of the T.Rowe Price sales team took over the Stevenage CRUK shop as part of the CASCAID…
Anne-Marie rows from Wales to Ireland
Anne-Marie McConnon, Marketing Director of BNY Mellon and Ambassador for CASCAID, took on one of our most daring challenges. She...
Toni Craig’s Spartan Challenge
Jupiter's Toni took on something that's new to us: The Spartan Challenge. It sounds crazy! She completed an...
Janus Henderson sales & marketing Monopoly challenge
The Henderson sales & marketing team chose a challenge with a difference. On a rainy day in September,...
Ravenscroft Walkers
Mark Harries and the team at Ravenscroft organised the Ravenscroft & Friends Night Walk in Guernsey. This took...
Farquhar’s Thames battle
Square Mile’s Jamie took on the Thames in style in early August. He swam 14k in the Henley…
Teamspirit Skydive
#WalkTheWorld – Fundraising for Cancer Research UK in 2017 Following hot on the heels of the London 10...
Tamsin battles Nessy
Even though she's not in the industry any more, ex Gartmore and Schroders marketeer Tamsin Parker (nee Corbally)...
Munro vs Munro
On 8th August, CEO of Aviva Investors Euan Munro set off to climb Beinn Ghlas - 1,103m (3,619ft) and...
Libertine conquer the 3 peaks
Led by their MD Mark Brandis, ad agency Libertine took on the 3 Peaks Challenge. This photo shows them…
Keep on walking: the Hutson-Bryden 200km
Tuesday 30 May saw Derek Bryden and Mark Hutson from Janus Henderson set off on a 200km walk…from their…
Sam Gold’s amazing wine evening
Sam held a fabulous wine tasting evening in June, inviting friends, colleagues and peers to join her to taste...
Janus Henderson Transatlantic Tour
On merger day, hundreds of people from Janus and Henderson came together to raise money for CASCAID, aiming…
Two Tommys walk the Thames
The wonderful Two Tommys from River & Mercantile (Tom de Lisle and Mark Thomas) walked the entire length of…
Ben Burns’ Kilo
Well he can dream. MiP's Ben Burns is a cycling addict. His challenge in 2017 was to cycle...
Netball Mania
A number of groups put together a netball tournament in aid of CASCAID. Date: 23rd June Time: 6pm Venue:…
30 days, 300k, £30k raised for Jeremy Roberts and team
BlackRock’s Jeremy Roberts committed to a 10k run, cycle or row every single day in May. Jeremy recruited 30…
Ventoux was conquered
Schroders’ Paul Truscott took one of France’s toughest climbs as his challenge. During their three day trip to Provence,…
Coast-to-coast with Garry Whitefield
We have another “mamil” in our midst. Garry Whitefield and a friend cycled coast-to-coast in aid of CASCAID. Well done…
VouchedFor Beat The Tough Mudder
On 6th May team VouchedFor took on Tough Mudder to raise funds in memory of their colleague Harry, who...
Fundhouse Fun
Rory Maguire and the whole team at Fundhouse are getting involved in this challenge. In two months (starting...
AlphaGen Lakes Challenge
The Henderson AlphaGen team put together a bespoke challenge in the beautiful Lake District. That may conjure up...
Ravenscroft walkers
The two Marks at Ravenscroft (Bousfield and Harries) set up their own Night Walk. To coincide with the...
Helen Wagstaff’s 500k Challenge
MiP’s Helen has completed her 500k challenge. It had four elements: Skied 100k in a day. This one was ticked off in March....just...
Darts around the clock with Darius
Ever imaginative, Darius and his team played darts for 24 hours on 21st April 2017. They invited in...
The Great CASCAID Bake-Off
Sophie Burke from M&G led an industry bake-off. Teams competed to see who could bake the best goodies. One…
Dynamic Planner Risk Challenge
The team at Dynamic Planner have cleverly aligned their challenge with their business. The more money they raise, the riskier…
The Next Generation Quiz Night
Zoe Ng of Henderson, Katie Wagstaff of Schroders and Giles Whittingham of GAM are part of our Young…
Investec scale 3 peaks…with a difference
In March, Simon Brazier and his team from Investec scaled Lion’s Head, Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain: the…
Newton Walk the Wight
Hanneke Smits invited 50 people from Newton to walk across the Isle of Wight, the equivalent of a marathon….
Ping Pong Bailey raises £12k
AXA IM's Rob Bailey was one of the first to complete his challenge for CASCAID. Rob played ping pong for...
Morningstar Chicago to Sydney
Morningstar have set up static bikes in their London office and are aiming to cycle 25,000; the equivalent…
Mountain Goats
The directors of IFA firm Create Wealth, Stephen Ng and Richard Gough, have set a million metre challenge....
Aviva Investors sales team scale the heights
Jeremy Leadsom and a team from Aviva Investors scaled one of the highest peaks in the Italian Dolomites. It...
Wharrier’s boots are made for walking
BlackRock's Mark Wharrier walked the 84m long Hadrian's Wall, which spans Cumbria and his native Northumberland in June. Mark had...
Liv and Kim’s million metres
Liv & Kim from MiP are between them running one million metres over the year. That's a 10k...
500k for Charles Davies
Investec Asset Management’s Charles has a 500k challenge. First up, a 100k ski in a day (along with Helen…
RWC’s 24-hour pedibus
Gary Tuffield, James Tollemache and the team at RWC have given this a lot of thought and devised a…
Teamspirit Walk the World
Jo Parker and her colleagues at Teamspirit will "walk the world". Each and every one of them will play...
Jim’s top 100
Jim Leaviss is simply amazing. He's done his research, bought the book, and set his challenge as 100...
Rob&Gary’s Robin Round Britain
The much-loved BMO team heads Gary and Rob are taking on an adventure with a difference. They plan...
26 miles of pain for Rainbow
James Rainbow of Schroders previously declared he'd never run a marathon again. For CASCAID, he changed his mind. He...
New York, New York for JPM
J.P.Morgan Asset Managements’s UK retail team are cycling the distance from London to New York. Four static bikes…
Matt Oomen’s Velodrome-a-thon
Cycle mad (or just mad?) Matt has arranged for various teams at BNY Mellon to compete in a 24-hour…
Bond Vigilantes support CASCAID
To celebrate 10 years of their Bond Vigilantes blog and raise money, Jim Leaviss and the M&G team…
“Trouser” tees it up
Mark “Trouser” Allpress has, shockingly, chosen golf as his fundraising activity. He and the Liontrust team are organising…
Jasper and the skydivers
Jasper and his colleagues are going to jump out of a plane. Yep. There’s not a lot more…
Tom Becket’s footie tournament
Tom is setting up an industry football tournament. Held in September, this will see teams from across asset management…
Comedy with Katy
Katy Cole is organising a comedy evening as her challenge. Who doesn’t love a bit of comedy? Katy will raise…
4 men, 4 nations, 4 a good cause
Who wants to run, cycle or swim the distance of the entire UK coastline? Justin Eede, John Tevenan,...
Henderson Transatlantic Tour
Henderson are getting together with their new colleagues across the pond to do a virtual cycle from London to…
Kate Rowland walking marathon
Kate has gathered a team together to walk a marathon along the Portuguese coastline. More info to follow…
Pinner’s pins get put to the test
Kathryn Pinner, famous for her hatred of running, set out to run 5k every single day in June. I’m…
Incisive Media exercise their brains
As their challenge, Incisive organised a massive quiz night at The Brewery, drawing in journalists, PR teams and…
The Ptarmigan Media mega triathlon…
....around the world. The whole team at Ptarmigan are involved. Take 25,000 miles, divide it up between the...
Tonkinson’s a man of iron
Warren loves a large-scale challenge, having canoed the Thames and cycled the length of the country in the…
Is that Alastair Mundy or Garry Kasparov?
Alastair is challenging his grey matter and is undertaking a chess marathon of 500 games. I think some…
Cazenove take on the Thames
Darren Morgan and Rory Cumming from Cazenove Capital put their imagination to the test and came up with an unusual…
Lift heavy, be happy, say Hooper, Gent and co
Gym addicts of the world unite. Simon Lodge, Graham Hooper, Adam Gent and Scott Stevens have set a...
JP certified insane!
Jonathan Polin of Sanlam has gone mad. Despite not having cycled for 20 years, he has decided to...
Cycle mania with Standard Life
Richard House, Katie Trowsdale, Michael Beveridge and team plan to cycle between two of Standard Life’s offices in…
Square Mile are feeling peaky
The lovely team at Square Mile took on the Three Peaks challenge in June. Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell…
Walk2Work day – 31st October 2017
Mark is challenging the industry to walk to work. For one day only: 31st October. Walk to work…
Lazard flyers
Another one on the cycling theme. Rory Williams is gathering a team of colleagues, clients, peers and friends...
CEO abseil with Andrew Formica
On a very windy day in June, a team of intrepid industry figures abseiled the Broadgate Tower, all…
Waggy’s wheels
Phil Wagstaff and a team are cycling round Lake Geneva. That’s 200 kilometres. Given that Phil is currently…
Anna O’Donoghue takes on The Channel
On our New York conferences, Anna was nicknamed Billy The Fish as she always took to the pool…
The London marathon
Mattias Hagen of Goldman Sachs ran the London marathon in April for CASCAID, achieving a fabulous time. Well done...
Team Aberdeen aiming to conquer heights
Team Aberdeen climbed Britain’s highest peak, Ben Nevis! The team included Graham Duce, Justin Jones, Jamie Niven and…
Carols with (Saint) Nick
Fancy a singalong? Join Nick Hutton from BlackRock in a good old-fashioned Christmas carol concert. This will be…